WoW Lets Me Out on Patch Day!
Was Reading My Friends List for the First Time in Ages...
So james_nicoll linked this news about Terry Goodkind. Weird! I always felt a bit strange enjoying his books after I found out that he was basically writing Objectivist allegories (since I hate allegory), but this makes it sound like he sees Fantasy as an inferior mode. I suppose there's no crime in wanting to move to a different genre if that's what gets him stoked, but I can't see myself picking up his "mainstream" books, seeing as the preachy philosophical parts of his later books were "skim-only" material for me. Ayn Rand did that already, after all. It was of some passing interest the first time, but I don't really see any point in revisiting it.
Been Watching a Lot of Doctor Who...
In "The Impossible Planet," they talk about a piece of rock in "geostationary orbit around a black hole."
Dot. Dot. Dot.
Am I wrong? I mean, to be in GEOstationary orbit, don't you have to be, I don't know, orbiting the earth or something?! Does a black hole even rotate? I don't know a whole lot about astrophysics, but this made particularly little sense to me.
So james_nicoll linked this news about Terry Goodkind. Weird! I always felt a bit strange enjoying his books after I found out that he was basically writing Objectivist allegories (since I hate allegory), but this makes it sound like he sees Fantasy as an inferior mode. I suppose there's no crime in wanting to move to a different genre if that's what gets him stoked, but I can't see myself picking up his "mainstream" books, seeing as the preachy philosophical parts of his later books were "skim-only" material for me. Ayn Rand did that already, after all. It was of some passing interest the first time, but I don't really see any point in revisiting it.
Been Watching a Lot of Doctor Who...
In "The Impossible Planet," they talk about a piece of rock in "geostationary orbit around a black hole."
Dot. Dot. Dot.
Am I wrong? I mean, to be in GEOstationary orbit, don't you have to be, I don't know, orbiting the earth or something?! Does a black hole even rotate? I don't know a whole lot about astrophysics, but this made particularly little sense to me.